CVE-2014-5033

KDE kdelibs < 4.14 and kauth < 5.1 - Local Privilege Escalation via PolkitUnixProcess Race Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/60385
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/60654
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/60633
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.2%

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (38)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
debian/kde4libs
kde/kauth < 5.0
kde/kdelibs 4.10.0
kde/kdelibs 4.10.1
kde/kdelibs 4.10.2
kde/kdelibs 4.10.3
kde/kdelibs 4.10.95
kde/kdelibs 4.10.97
... and 28 more
Published Aug 19, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026